Olympics - what went right?
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forgot how literal everyone is on here, track and field was an example, nothing more and nothing less.
If you want a list of sports we did not do well at then google.
I was trying to focus on the positive, i.e. the sports we did well at, and asking the question what has changed from last time?
If you want a list of sports we did not do well at then google.
I was trying to focus on the positive, i.e. the sports we did well at, and asking the question what has changed from last time?
I think the difference is everyone gets exposed to track and field sports at school, but there are very few schools that teach rowing, cycling and yachting. So anyone who takes up those sports is doing so because they really want to and not because they are forced into it because they happen to be better than the other kids at the school which on the global scale of things isn't that good.
And I think there has been more money pumped into track and field athletics in the UK than any other sport in the Olympics.
And I think there has been more money pumped into track and field athletics in the UK than any other sport in the Olympics.
Looking at our "top 3" sports that definitely went right and comparing to athletics, from the Beijing 2008 website:
Track Cycling - 188 entrants
Sailing - 400 entrants
Rowing - 550 entrants
Athletics - 2000 entrants
Is it any surprise that athletics medals are particularly hard to come by?
Fantastic work by the cyclists, rowers and sailors. Don't make the mistake of assuming that the athletes aren't working as hard as the other sportspeople just because they aren't winning the medals.
Track Cycling - 188 entrants
Sailing - 400 entrants
Rowing - 550 entrants
Athletics - 2000 entrants
Is it any surprise that athletics medals are particularly hard to come by?
Fantastic work by the cyclists, rowers and sailors. Don't make the mistake of assuming that the athletes aren't working as hard as the other sportspeople just because they aren't winning the medals.
ewenm said:
Looking at our "top 3" sports that definitely went right and comparing to athletics, from the Beijing 2008 website:
Track Cycling - 188 entrants
Sailing - 400 entrants
Rowing - 550 entrants
Athletics - 2000 entrants
Is it any surprise that athletics medals are particularly hard to come by?
Fantastic work by the cyclists, rowers and sailors. Don't make the mistake of assuming that the athletes aren't working as hard as the other sportspeople just because they aren't winning the medals.
Statistics statistics, you only paint half a picture. How many different events/discilpines did the athletics have? in the sailing there were 11 disciplines and 47 in athletics so the ratios are 1:36 sailing 1:42 athletics perhaps not as great a difference as you were suggesting! Track Cycling - 188 entrants
Sailing - 400 entrants
Rowing - 550 entrants
Athletics - 2000 entrants
Is it any surprise that athletics medals are particularly hard to come by?
Fantastic work by the cyclists, rowers and sailors. Don't make the mistake of assuming that the athletes aren't working as hard as the other sportspeople just because they aren't winning the medals.
Scooby_snax said:
ewenm said:
Looking at our "top 3" sports that definitely went right and comparing to athletics, from the Beijing 2008 website:
Track Cycling - 188 entrants
Sailing - 400 entrants
Rowing - 550 entrants
Athletics - 2000 entrants
Is it any surprise that athletics medals are particularly hard to come by?
Fantastic work by the cyclists, rowers and sailors. Don't make the mistake of assuming that the athletes aren't working as hard as the other sportspeople just because they aren't winning the medals.
Statistics statistics, you only paint half a picture. How many different events/discilpines did the athletics have? in the sailing there were 11 disciplines and 47 in athletics so the ratios are 1:36 sailing 1:42 athletics perhaps not as great a difference as you were suggesting! Track Cycling - 188 entrants
Sailing - 400 entrants
Rowing - 550 entrants
Athletics - 2000 entrants
Is it any surprise that athletics medals are particularly hard to come by?
Fantastic work by the cyclists, rowers and sailors. Don't make the mistake of assuming that the athletes aren't working as hard as the other sportspeople just because they aren't winning the medals.
ewenm said:
Scooby_snax said:
ewenm said:
Looking at our "top 3" sports that definitely went right and comparing to athletics, from the Beijing 2008 website:
Track Cycling - 188 entrants
Sailing - 400 entrants
Rowing - 550 entrants
Athletics - 2000 entrants
Is it any surprise that athletics medals are particularly hard to come by?
Fantastic work by the cyclists, rowers and sailors. Don't make the mistake of assuming that the athletes aren't working as hard as the other sportspeople just because they aren't winning the medals.
Statistics statistics, you only paint half a picture. How many different events/discilpines did the athletics have? in the sailing there were 11 disciplines and 47 in athletics so the ratios are 1:36 sailing 1:42 athletics perhaps not as great a difference as you were suggesting! Track Cycling - 188 entrants
Sailing - 400 entrants
Rowing - 550 entrants
Athletics - 2000 entrants
Is it any surprise that athletics medals are particularly hard to come by?
Fantastic work by the cyclists, rowers and sailors. Don't make the mistake of assuming that the athletes aren't working as hard as the other sportspeople just because they aren't winning the medals.
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